Caroline Tracey grew up in Colorado. More recently she has lived in California and Kyrgyzstan, where she was a 2014–15 Fulbright research fellow. Her past writing about water in the West has appeared in [PANK] and The Cossack Review, and she is currently working on a novel about land speculation in the American West and Central Asia. Follow her on Twitter @seaisrisn.
Caroline Tracey
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Drought Lit
For the last several summers I’ve spent August in the Central Valley of California, swimming twice a day and eating guacamole for dinner. During the same last few years, the state’s drought, already worse than the records had ever seen, has intensified. The reservoirs are 20 percent full; the last mud puddles have evaporated off […]
